The Black Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFFG HIHIJJ EFFG AKAKLL AFFG| Say that the men of the old black tower | A |
| Though they but feed as the goatherd feeds | B |
| Their money spent their wine gone sour | A |
| Lack nothing that a soldier needs | B |
| That all are oath bound men | C |
| Those banners come not in | D |
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| There in the tomb stand the dead upright | E |
| But winds come up from the shore | F |
| They shake when the winds roar | F |
| Old bones upon the mountain shake | G |
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| Those banners come to bribe or threaten | H |
| Or whisper that a man's a fool | I |
| Who when his own right king's forgotten | H |
| Cares what king sets up his rule | I |
| If he died long ago | J |
| Why do you dread us so | J |
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| There in the tomb drops the faint moonlight | E |
| But wind comes up from the shore | F |
| They shake when the winds roar | F |
| Old bones upon the mountain shake | G |
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| The tower's old cook that must climb and clamber | A |
| Catching small birds in the dew of the morn | K |
| When we hale men lie stretched in slumber | A |
| Swears that he hears the king's great horn | K |
| But he's a lying hound | L |
| Stand we on guard oath bound | L |
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| There in the tomb the dark grows blacker | A |
| But wind comes up from the shore | F |
| They shake when the winds roar | F |
| Old bones upon the mountain shake | G |
William Butler Yeats
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